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Born: 6 July 1927
Died: 3 October 2004 (age 77)
Birthplace: Merced, California
Best known as:
The sexy star of Hitchcock's Psycho

4 good links

Janet Leigh Obituary
A lengthy appreciation from The Independent
All Movie Guide: Janet Leigh
Tidy recap of her career, then a full list of her credits
Touch of Evil
Lengthy analysis of her 1958 film
The Psycho Shower Scene
Video courtesy of YouTube; not for the faint of heart

Janet Leigh Biography

Actor

Name at birth: Jeanette Helen Morrison

Blonde, calmly beautiful and undeniably a grownup, Janet Leigh was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1950s. Leigh began making movies in 1947, and her 11-year marriage to actor Tony Curtis (1951-62) made them the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt of their day. Leigh made over fifty films, mostly light fare, but with a few notable dramatic exceptions: Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Her deadly shower scene in Psycho has long been considered a classic moment in American movies.

Extra credit:

The Independent called Leigh the ingenue who "was married to Tony Curtis and murdered by Alfred Hitchcock"... Leigh and Curtis are the parents of actress Jamie Lee Curtis.